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The teams are sent though dangerous zones carrying adorable babies. Topher awaits a call from the network and messes thing up for his team in the process. Sky chooses the competition over Dave, while Dave and Shawn try to win over Sky and Jasmine respectively.

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  • Abnormal Ammo: The spaghetti launcher makes a return, now dubbed the Pasta Blasta.
  • Baby Talk: The teams are given babies to take care of during the challenge. This suits Max perfectly, because he's a professional babysitter and just adores babies. Every time that he can, he baby talks, repeat-rhymes, and coos to his charge while not letting go of his usual pro-evil dramatics like calling the baby his "tiny minion".
  • Batman Gambit: Chris let Topher keep his Phone and, pegging Topher as being similar to himself, let Topher get obsessed with the network having Topher replace Chris, then calls Topher just when he needs to be quiet, triggers an avalanche, and elimates Topher from the competition.
  • Blah, Blah, Blah: Chris isn't impressed with the show's lawyers demanding that he return the babies he's added to make a dangerous challenge even worse. His irreverence of the situation shines bright when he summarizes the phone call as "something about danger, and babies, and lawsuits, blah blah blah bleh bleh bleh," while talking with his right hand.
  • Blowing a Raspberry: Topher has antagonized his entire team by being detrimentally distracted during the challenge, but none is as pissed at him as Scarlett. When she, Sky, and Jasmine get marshmallows, sealing Topher's elimination, she blows a raspberry at him in satisfaction.
  • Body Sled: After being a burden on his team for the entire challenge, Dave repays them in the final area. It is a snowy mountain top and Dave allows his three teammates to sit on his back and use him as a sled to ride down to the finish line.
  • Chaos Architecture: Jasmine mentions in universe how the island seems to be changing overnight.
  • Curse Cut Short: Topher has been a blight on the Pimâpotew Kinosewak' success rate all day. Just before the finish, he shouts from happiness in a known avalanche-sensitive area and while the team has no time to avoid the plummeting snow, Jasmine does have almost enough time to let Topher know how pissed she is: "I'm gonna rip you a new–," being cut off when the avalanche hits the team.
  • Dish Dash: Jasmine, Scarlett, and Sky are launched upwards by a spring trap. They all lose the babies in their care, but while Jasmine and Scarlett land in a bush, Sky makes a flawless landing on her feet and proceeds to catch the babies that fall down next. She catches two with her hands and one with her head.
  • Dramatic Irony: As Chef points out, only the audience could see Chris's disguise, Chris only put it on as a means of "getting into character".
  • Hair-Trigger Avalanche: Topher shouts victoriously in the avalanche zone and gets Pimâpotew Kinosewak buried in snow.
  • Happy Dance: Sugar does a victory dance in her own honor when the Wâneyihtam Maskwak make it past the lions and snakes. It comes to an end when Shawn points out she lost her baby amidst the carnivores.
  • High-Five Left Hanging: Pimâpotew Kinosewak reaches the final zone first, so Jasmine goes in for some high-fives. Sky gives her one, but Topher ignores Jasmine in favor of checking on the network connection of Chris's cellphone he stole.
  • Illness Blanket: Topher yells in triumph in an avalanche-sensitive area and gets his team buried in snow. This, in turn, causes the Pimâpotew Kinosewak to lose. At the elimination ceremony, the four of them sit at the campfire wrapped in blankets to keep any sickness at bay.
  • Mirror Character: Why Chris beats Topher. He recognizes the boy as a younger, less experienced version of himself... and thus easily beats him when Topher tries to steal his job.
  • Morality Pet: Max quickly develops affectionate feelings towards the baby he has to carry.
  • Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Topher's jabs to Chris are why the teams had to carry babies at all, and his constant checking of Chris's stolen phone end up causing his team to lose.
  • Paper-Thin Disguise: It's so blatantly obvious that the "Producer" calling Topher is really Chris in disguise (a major giveaway being his eyes are clearly visible behind the sunglasses) that one has to be as stupid as Topher in order to believe that it isn't him...
  • Pepper Sneeze: Max aims to sabotage the Pimâpotew Kinosewak with pepper to get them to sneeze during a challenge that requires stealth. Just as he is to blow the spice into the other team's faces, Sugar startles him, which causes Max to throw the pepper up in his own face. He starts sneezing and gets shot himself by Chef.
  • Pop-Culture Pun Episode Title: The title is a play on the film Three Men and a Baby.
  • Shout-Out:
    • Sugar quotes "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" by Taylor Swift.
    • Max holds his pinkie to his mouth much like Dr. Evil from Austin Powers.
    • When Max hands the baby to the intern, he seems to whistle the first few notes of "In the Hall of the Mountain King" by Edvard Grieg.

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